Caritas helps low-income families with emergency basic needs such as food, rent and utilities. Caritas also helps client families learn the skills to become self-reliant.

Caritas was founded in 1964 and is an integral part of our community’s social services network.

 Caritas will serve 20,000 adults and children as Travis County’s largest source of non-governmental assistance for low-income families. Caritas serves the working poor, the unemployed, the homeless, near-homeless and documented refugees.

BASIC NEEDS SERVICES: Include emergency rent and utility assistance for families in financial crisis such as job loss or reduced working hours, hot meals in the soup kitchen, take-home groceries from the food pantry and resettlement support services for documented political refugees.

SELF-SUFFICIENCY SERVICES: build the skills needed to move toward self-reliance through education classes such as budgeting, money management, energy conservation, ESL and job readiness and placement.

 

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